Responsibilities
Teaching, supervision, evaluation and grading in literary subjects of the bachelor / year unit / lecturer program in Norwegian studies (NOR101 Literature before 1900, NOR103 Literature after 1900), the Master's in Language Didactics (MN-LIT4200 Fiction and teaching literature, MN-VFM4700 Theory of science and research method, Master's theses), and Ph.d. in educational resources and learning processes in kindergarten and school (PEDRES)
Program manager for Master's in Language Didactics, including the field of study Norwegian Didactics (from 2022), and for Master's in Norwegian Didactics (2021–22).
Chair of the program committee for the Master’s in Language Didactics (from 2022), and of the program committee for the Master's in Norwegian Didactics (from 2021), USN
Permanent member of the program committee for Ph.d. in Humanities, Cultural and Educational Sciences (HKU), Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Sciences (HIU), USN, from 2024.
Deputy member of the program committee for Ph.d. in educational resources and learning processes in kindergarten and school (PEDRES), HIU, USN, from 2023.
Head of the Literature and literature didactics research group, with Margareta Dancus and Ylva Frøjd, from 2022.
Academic representative of Norwegian studies in the program council for Bachelor of Languages and Literature (2019–23)
Representative of USN in National academic council for Scandinavian language and literature (2019–23)
Competences
EDUCATION
2009–2014 PhD candidate in Comparative Literature.
2004–2005 MA Russian Studies, University of Bergen (UiB), Norway.
1999–2003 BA Russian Studies and Comparative Literature, UiB and UiO.
Additional Education
2015/2016 Qualitative Methods & Social Sciences Elements of Social Science Research, Research Methods Centre (SSRMC), University of Cambridge.
2010/ 2011 Sociology 60 ECTS, UiB.
2006 European studies 30 ECTS, UiB.
2002/2003 One-year Programme Russian Studies. Irkutsk State University, Russia.
University pedagogical education
2014/15 UiO
2023/24 USN
CV
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
From 2022 Professor of Norwegian literature and teacher training, USN, 100 %.
10.2017–21 Associate professor of Norwegian, USN, 100 %.
8–9.2017 Associate professor of Nordic literature, Inland University of Applied Sciences (HINN). 100 %.
2017 Associate professor of Norwegian, USN, 20 %.
2016/17 Assistant professor of Nordic literature, UiO, 100 %.
2014/15 Research Fellow UiO, July 2014–July 2015.
2009–14 PhD candidate in the project Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives, UiO.
2007 Lecturer in Russian Language at Department of Classical Philology, Russian and Religious Science, UiB. Teaching Russian introductory course, exams.
Editorial member
Norsklæreren [The Norwegian Teacher], from 2022.
Courses Taught
NOR103 Scandinavian literature after 1900, USN. 2022 spring, 2021 spring & autumn, 2020s&a, 2019s&a
MN-LIT4200 Fiction and teaching literature, Master Norwegian Education, USN. 2021a, 2020a, 2019a, 18s&a, 17a
MG2NO3 Developments in subjects, languages and literature, 2021a
MG2NO4 On teaching reading, writing and orality, 2022s
NOR101 Scandinavian literature before 1900, USN. 2019a, 2018a
MN-OPG5100 Supervision of six master dissertations in fiction and teaching literature, USN. 2019-2021
GMNOLIT Fiction and teaching literature, Master in Pedagogy with specialization in Norwegian, USN. 2018a
Fiction and teaching literature (mainly picture books) and multilingualism in Scandinavian literature including Saami literature, Master teacher education 5–10, USN. 2018s
BS-BAO3000 Supervision of three bachelor papers Scandinavian literature. 2018s
BS-NOR1220 Literature 1 – History and analysis, USN. 2018s &2019s
BS-FNO3000 Methodology of literature and art studies, USN. 2018s
Children and youth literature, Master teacher education 5–10, USN. 2017a
Scandinavian literature (teacher education 5–10): Literature and genre (one-year programme Norwegian studies), HINN. 2017a
NOR2310/4310: Scandinavian, especially Norwegian, children and youth literature 2, UiO. 2017s
NOR2312 Multimodal texts, UiO. 2017s
NOR3090 Bachelor paper Scandinavian studies, supervision of three students, UiO. 2017s
NOR1302 Scandinavian children and youth literature 1, UiO. 2016s
NOR2380 Subject on the authors Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sofi Oksanen, and Maja Lee Langvad, UiO. 2016s
NOAS2301 Literature in a Multicultural Context, UiO. 2015s
NOR1301 Scandinavian Literature 1500–1800. Seminar on Petter Dass, UiO. 2015s
NOR1300 Scandinavian, Particularly Norwegian Literature 1800–2000, UiO. 2014/2015 & 2016
NOR2301 Scandinavian Contemporary Literature, UiO. 2014
NOR4360 Scandinavian Migration Literature: Memory and Forgetting as Inspiration for a Mixture of Facts and Fiction, UiO. 2014
RUS101 Introduction to Russian Language, UiB. 2007
Publications
Published Articles and Book Chapters
2023. Tegneserien som grunnlag for utvikling av aktiv empati: Formidling av traumer og fremmedgjøring i Halfdan Piskets Dansker-trilogi [The cartoon as a basis for the development of active empathy: Mediation of trauma and alienation in Halfdan Pisket's Dansker trilogy], ELLA - education, literature, language.
2022, with Anniken Jansen. “På matta: Hvorfor er ikke litteratur om innvandring til Norge (tilsynelatende) mer grenseoverskridende?” [Staying on the mat: Why isn't literature about immigration to Norway (apparently) more cross-border?]. In Fortellinger om migrasjon. Skandinavisk, tysk, fransk- og spanskspråklig samtidslitteratur [Migration narratives. Scandinavian, German, French- and Spanish-language contemporary literature], Guri Barstad, Barbro Bredesen Opset & Elin Nesje Vestli (eds.), p. 94–117. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN: 9788215065519. doi/10.18261/9788215065526-2022-04.
2022, with Guri Barstad & Elin Nesje Vestli. “Migrasjonslitteratur: aktuelle begreper og kontekster”, [Migration literature: Relevant concepts and concepts] in Fortellinger om migrasjon. Skandinavisk, tysk, fransk- og spanskspråklig samtidslitteratur [Migration narratives. Scandinavian, German, French- and Spanish-language contemporary literature], Guri Barstad, Barbro Bredesen Opset & Elin Nesje Vestli (eds.), s. 13–51. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN: 9788215065519. doi.org/10.18261/9788215065526-2022-01
2022, with Hege Cecilie Eken, Linn Amundsen Falao & Inger-Martha Skjelland. “Læreplanverket for Kunnskapsløftet 2020 (LK20) sett i lys av bildeboka Lejren av Oscar K. og Dorte Karrebæk”. [ The Norwegian National Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education 2020 (LK20) read in light of the picture book Lejren by Oscar K. and Dorte Karrebæk]. Norsklæreren (2): 64–79.
2022. “Autobiographical Narratives in an era of Migration: To What extent Is the Idea of Individual and National Identity Still Viable Today?” Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature, s. 10–26, Martin Humpál & Helena Březinová (red.). Prague: Charles University – Karolinum Press.
2022, with Pia Lane & Bjørghild Kjelsvik (eds.). Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives. Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-89108-4.
2022, with Bjørghild Kjelsvik & Pia Lane (eds). Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Spoken, Written and Material Narratives. In Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Lane, Kjelsvik & Myhr (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89109-1_1.
2022. Who Gets to Tell Whose Story? Asylum Seeker Narratives in Maria Amelie’s Ulovlig norsk, Mikhail Shishkin’s Venerin volos, and the Research Chapter. In Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Lane, Kjelsvik & Myhr (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89109-1_3.
2021, with Adriana Margareta Dancus & Silje Hernæs Linhart. Litteratur og sårbarhet [Literature and vulnerability]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
2021, with Adriana Margareta Dancus & Silje Hernæs Linhart. “Sårbarhet: Politisk-filosofiske, litteraturvitenskapelige og didaktiske perspektiver” [Vulnerability: Perspectives from political philosophy, literary studies and didactics]. In Litteratur og sårbarhet [Literature and vulnerability]. Adriana Margareta Dancus, Silje Hernæs Linhart & Annika Bøstein Myhr (eds.). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
2021. “Empati i norskfaget, men ikke hjemme: Åsa Linderborgs Mig äger ingen og Jenny Jägerfelds Här ligger jag och blöder” [Empathy in the Norwegian class, but not at home: Å.L.’s No one owns me and J.J.’s Here I lie bleeding]. In Litteratur og sårbarhet [Literature and vulnerability]. Adriana Margareta Dancus, Silje Hernæs Linhart & Annika Bøstein Myhr (eds.). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
2021. “Challenging Nordic Exceptionalism: Norway in Literature by and about Irregular Immigrants”. Law and Literature. https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1930693.
2021. Twist: Analyser av aktuell litteratur for barn og unge [Twist: Analyses of topical literature for children and young readers]. Oslo: Novus.
2021. “Aktuell litteratur for barn og unge” [Topical literature for children and young readers]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (ed), 9–24. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Margrethe Bakken, Ninia Knappe-Poindecker, Aksel Nes Mygland, & Nina Marie Vogt-Østli. “Hva barneromanene Vi Børn, Tonje Glimmerdal og Meg, meg, meg kan fortelle om (voksnes syn på) barn” [What the children’s novels We children, Tonje Glimmerdal and Me, me, me may tell about (adults' view on) children]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (ed), 25–54. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Anna Marketa Restan Paulsen. “Dinas individuasjonsprosess i Lene Kaaberbøls Skammerens datter og Skammerkrigen: En utprøving av jungiansk teori” [Dina’s individuation process in Lene Kaaberbøl’s The Shamer’s Daughter and The Shamer’s War: A test of Jungian theory]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (ed), 91–109. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Ninia Knappe-Poindecker & Daniel Eggen Klausen. “Sårbarhet og kjønnsperspektiver i komplekse men lettleste ungdomsromaner: Brynjulf Jung Tjønns Så vakker du er og Smadra” [Vulnerability and gender perspectives in complex easy readers for youth]. Brynjulf Jung Tjønn’s You are so beautiful and Smashed]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (ed), 153–173. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Lillian Nilsen. “Skeive perspektiver i litteraturundervisningen: Camilla Sandmos Kan vi bare late som og Bjarte Daviknes Klakeggs Ninkolai” [Queer perspectives in literature teaching: Camilla Sandmos Can we just pretend and Bjarte Daviknes Klakeggs Ninkolai]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (ed), 191–214. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Malin Engevold Transeth. “Tegneserien som motfortelling: Lene Asks Hitler, Jesus og farfar” [The cartoon as a counter-narrative: Lene Ask’s Hitler, Jesus and Grandpa]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (red), 215–238. 2020. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Bente Hessenschmidt Gundelsby. “Taternes historie i Norge: Hva en multimodal analyse av Bernt Eide og Ellen Aanensen Nasjonens barn kan lære oss om kritisk literacy” [The history of Norwegian Romanisael (Tater) Travellers: What a multimodal analysis of Bernt Eide and Ellen Aanesen’s The nation’s children can teach us about critical literacy]. In Twist, Annika B. Myhr (ed), 239–263. Oslo: Novus.
2021, with Oda Helene Bergland & Bente Jeannine Hovind. “Lene Asks Kjære Rikard som utgangspunkt for utvikling av emosjonell literacy og mentaliseringsevne”. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 51 (1): 117–139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2020-2029.
2020. “Sofi Oksanens Stalins kyr: En beretning om å dekke over et ulovlig andrespråk med et taust tredje” [Sofi Oksanen’s Stalin’s Cows. A tale of covering up an illegal second language with a silent third one], Samlaren 140: 5–32. https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1415017/FULLTEXT01.pdf.
2019. “Boka eller filmen? En studie av det empatiskapende potensialet i Jonas Hassen Khemiris Jag ringer mina bröder og Ett öga rødt” [‘The book or the film? A study of the potential of Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s I Call my Brothers and One eye red’]. Norsklæreren 3/19: https://www.norskundervisning.no/nyheter-og-artikler/annika-bstein-myhr-boka-eller-filmen.
2018. “Minne, glemsel og identitet i Jonas Hassen Khemiris romaner” [‘Memory, oblivion, and identity in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novels], European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 48/1: 103–124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2018-0006.
2016. “Forfatter- og fortellerbegrepet i litteraturundervisningen” [‘The terms author and narrator in the training of literary scholars’]. Norsklæreren 4, 63–80.
2016. “Language and Identity in ‘Mangfolds-Norge’: Or Why Brynjulf Jung Tjønn Wrote Chinaman in Bokmål and His Other Novels in New Norwegian.” European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (EJSS) 46 (1), 55–75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2016-0004.
2016. “Grensemotivet i Mikhail Sjisjkins verk” [‘Mikhail Shishkin’s Border Motif]. Vinduet 1: 98–111.
2015. (with Sandra Theting Aarstrand, Maria Drangeid, Camilla Einerkjær, Karl Gunnar Johansson, Sunniva Gjengedal Knapstad, Kristin Lorentsen, Karen Musæus, Camilla Helene Schäffer, and Ane Norreen Thorsen, Johan Tønnesson) “Minne, glemsel og identitet: Bergsveinn Birgissons Den svarte vikingen som identitetsskapende narrativ” [‘Memory, oblivion, and identity: Bergsveinn Birgisson’s The Black Viking as an identity-constitutive narrative’]. Edda 4: 312–325. https://www.idunn.no/edda/2015/04/minne_glemsel_og_sjanger_-_bergsveinn_birgissons_den_svart.
2015. “Asylsøkere og papirløse innvandrere i Europa: Verdien av selvbiografiske tekster og oversettelser av dem” [‘Asylum seekers and irregular immigrants in Europe: The value of autobiographical texts and translations of them’]. Mellom 2: 19–27.
2010. “En sovjetrussisk immigrant i det postsovjetiske Russland: Denis Gutskos roman Russisktalende.” [‘A Soviet Russian Immigrant in Post–Soviet Russia: Denis Gutsko’s novel Russophone’]. Nordisk Østforum, 24 (3): 261–277. https://www.idunn.no/nof/2010/03/art05.
2006. “Trends in the Russian Language Debate: The Response of Contemporary Poetry.” In Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, eds. Ingunn Lunde & Tine Rosen, Bergen: Slavica Bergensia: 194–212. https://boap.uib.no/books/sb/catalog/view/3/5/117-1.
2004. “‘Spar dame’ – et dykk i den russiske prosaens begynnelse” [“‘Dame of Spades’: On the beginnings of Russian prose’]. Nordahl & eftf, ed. Blatt, Thomas Marco. Sørumsand: Sørumsand Trykk.